The chairman of SDMC's standing committee on Tuesday directed the municipal commissioner to start work on lodging an FIR against the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), which the civic body alleges is "responsible" for the collapse incident in west Delhi last week, in which five persons died.

Chennai Building collapse — Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa took stock of the situation and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams rushed to suburban Porur where two persons were killed and several others feared trapped when an under construction 11-storeyed building collapsed on Saturday.

At least nine people including three children were killed and several others are trapped under the debris as a three-storey residential building in Tulsi Nagar area of Inderlok, Delhi collapsed on Saturday.

Two more persons, who were
injured in last night`s building collapse in Old Delhi, died
here today, taking the toll to seven even as rescue operations
continued at the spot of the tragedy for the second day.